A gentle breeze wafts across the back porch of Point Camp. Waves lap gently against the rocky shoreline edged with spruce, Canadian holly, alder and cedar. The great cliff face up to my left glows with the golden light of late afternoon, while brilliant white clouds scud over the ridgeline to my right across the blue waters of Fourth Debsconeag Lake.
Relaxed with feet up and cold beverage in hand, life couldn’t be any finer. The day has been a beauty. Hiking meandering foot paths to secret spots.
Paddling a canoe to grand views of majestic Katahdin. Swimming in the crystal clear lake. Now there’s time to just sit, read a few more pages of a good book and drink it all in.
A hearty dinner will follow. With the evening chill there’ll be a warming fire in the wood stove. And at nighttime a billion stars will put on a spectacular show in the dark heavens.
Point Camp is one of six cabins clustered together on Fourth Debsconeag Lake, just shy of two hours north of Dover-Foxcroft. All are painted deep red and trimmed with forest green, and comfortably outfitted with simple furnishings. Putting my hand on the cabin wall, I run my fingers along the grain of the old logs and am instantly connected to over a century of rich and colorful history.
Beginning around 1900, Pleasant Point Camps hosted visitors from Boston, New York, Philadelphia and the like, who traveled here by passenger train, boat, portage trail and canoe. These wealthy “rusticators” spent weeks at a time at the .
